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  Mid-Atlantic Dietetic Internship
 
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Intern Individual Elective Rotations
All of our students have the opportunity to explore an area of particular interest during their individual elective rotation.  This rotation is 200 hours.  Interns submit a proposal to their advisor prior to beginning the rotation.  This proposal must include learning goals, activities to meet these goals, and how achievement of the goals will be evaluated.  The advisor will review the proposal, make suggestions and approve it.
  • Many of our students expand on their clinical, food service, or community rotation.
    • In clinical, interns may expand their staff relief and cover a particular area.  They may also choose to focus in on a particular disease state or area such as critical care or diabetes.
    • In food service, interns usually choose a particular project to focus on that will enhance their leadership skills.   Examples include developing and implementing a new program, reorganizing a small food service department to become more efficient and cost effective, or working with students assigned to the facility for a food service rotation.
    • In community, most students have spent additional time working with one agency such as Head Start, WIC, and Cooperative Extension.
    • Several interns have completed their rotation with the clinical nutrition manager learning about his/her role.
  • Interns may also choose an area that is not normally covered by the internship.  Examples include:wpe2A.jpg (15940 bytes)
    • College teaching--several interns have taught all or portions of an undergraduate nutrition class and explored with the professors what is involved in teaching at the college level
    • Corporate Wellness--several interns have had an interest in corporate wellness and have worked with corporate wellness departments in some of our corporate accounts.  Part of one intern's rotation was to develop a job description for hiring an RD as part of the department.
    • One intern was interested in exploring more non-traditional roles of a dietitian and completed her individual elective rotation at a clinical research facility working with the nutrition team to study various drugs with nutrition implications
    • One intern worked with an interdisciplinary team in an eating disorder clinic
    • One intern worked with 2 community agencies providing services for children
  • Several interns have completed experiences that have led to full time positions after graduation.
    • One intern worked on a grant to develop a food pantry with related nutrition education for HIV/AIDS clients
    • One intern worked with cooperative extension developing a position as a food safety specialist
    • One intern worked in a research department conducting nutrition-related research
  • Several of our interns have had an interest in rehabilitation or long term care and have focused in that area. 
    • One intern worked in a variety of facilities and compared procedures at each
    • Another intern worked in one facility and explored all aspects of the RD position in long term care

 

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